Interstate relations

If Russia leaves the Council of Europe, the country's withdrawal from the main conventions of the organization should be expected. This opinion was expressed by the permanent representative Ivan Soltanovsky.

The head of the Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin told in an interview with the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty why the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR cannot become one state.

Kiev's plan to regain control over Crimea is a provocation "at the instigation of Western curators." This was stated by the Deputy Prime Minister of the republic's government Georgy Muradov.

The Kremlin receives information about an increase in tension on the contact line in Donbass, which is fraught with provocations. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov.

The Minister for the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Aleksey Reznikov said about Russia's "main mistake" regarding the conflict in Donbass.

The West supports the sabotage of the Minsk agreements, which is a key challenge to security in the OSCE area. This was stated at a meeting of the UN Security Council by the first deputy ambassador of Russia to the organization Dmitry Polyansky.

British Naval Forces will remain permanently in the Arctic Circle to counter Russia's strategic advantage over new trade routes. New routes in the Arctic are opening up as a result of melting ice.

The Russian and Chinese sides signed an agreement on the creation of a lunar station. This information is reported on the Roscosmos website.

Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Valeriy Potseluyko said about a "very strong blow" on Russia.

Ukraine plans to allow second citizenship, including with EU countries, but not the Russian Federation. This was stated by the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry Dmitry Kuleba.

The introduction of new economic sanctions against Russia by the United States and Great Britain is unlikely, according to Pavel Kanevsky, an associate professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes at the Faculty of Sociology of Moscow State University.

At the same time, London remains an important trading partner for Moscow, Sergei Lavrov said.

China believes, that the case of Alexei Navalny is exclusively an internal matter of Russia.

The 27th Research Center of the Ministry of Defense, the 33rd Central Research Institute of the Ministry of Defense and the Research Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology were also included in the sanctions list.

These restrictions will be the first imposed on Russia by the administration of President Joe Biden and it will «set the tone for further policy towards Moscow».